The Hikers

After hiking for five months, across 14 states covering over 2,200 miles, John Suhar and Joe Collins completed their Appalachian Trail thru hike on September 12th 2009. Displayed below are their bios, photos and respective starting gear lists.

John Suhar (pictured on the far right)

Name: John Thomas Suhar (I am pictured on the far right)

Birthday: June 6th

Former Occupation: Kohl’s – Marketing Intelligence Analyst

Favorite Hike Prior to the AT: While I’ve enjoyed countless days hiking, my favorite memories would have to be with my family, relatives, and grandparents at our cabin in the Allegheny mountains of Pennsylvania.

Favorite Hike: In Costa Rica, after hiking all day in Cabo Blanco Park, instead of waiting for a bus, I hiked through the mountains to the tiny village Carmen on the other side of the Peninsula, just in time to reach the beach for the sunset on the Pacific

I tried thinking of a useful post you won’t just read and forget about. So here is a list you can refer to when you and Joe are bored or cannot think of a way to pass the time.

FUN THINGS TO DO FOR TWO:

-‘Would you rather’

-Double letter game (You say pairs of words, like so: Books, but not movies. Baseball, but not hockey. Apples, but not oranges. The idea is that the first word contains a double letter, the second doesn’t, and that the two things are related. It can be fun to come up with matched pairs. Might be fun trail-talk/a good time killer.)

-Categories (Zak was the worst on road trips to Ohio)..you could take it to the next level and do alphabetical Categories – Shoe Brands – Asics, Brooks, Crocs, Doc Martens, etc… Car Brands – Alfa Romeo, BMW, Cadillac, Dodge, etc…

-One person come up with a situation of something (anything), and then go back and forth naming books or movies or songs wherein that occurred. So, for example “a whale.” Then you could say Moby Dick, Whale Rider, or Free Willy, etc. etc. It’s pretty basic and kind of mind-numbing, but it passes the time.

-Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (or anyone)

-The opposite game. Example: “whats the opposite of a pufferfish”? …consequently a lot of the answers lead to debates.

-Rapping is always fun, even more so with two!

-Card games – Eucker, Sheapshead, War, Egyptians Ratscrew, Speed, Crazy 8’s, Rummy 500 (you could probably make it 5000..or keep a runny tally of victories), Gin, Cribbage (if you have the necessary room to carry the small, light board)…if you don’t know how to play any of theses – Wikipedia would come in handy)